African Americans

When the civil war ended all the African Americans thought that they had retrieved their freedom, but little did they know it was not what they thought. During reconstruction African Americans were discriminated.. There were laws created that put a strain on African American right. These set of laws were called the Black Code. The whites treated the black very poorly the blacks were under the whites authority. There hope for freedom seemed like it would very long to get to that point. The black code consist of these kind of laws. Blacks who are unemployed could and would be arrested but the trick was they did not make finding a job easy for them either. All these codes made the way the African Americans were living much like slavery. The codes (laws) wanted to make sure that slaves were for sure treated this way. The African Americans have been taken advantage of.   
    The civil rights movement in the 1950's and the 1960's was considered the Southern Freedom Movement. This act was to disagree and band discrimination against the color of your skin, race or religion.The difference between the way African Americans were treated during the Reconstruction era and the civil rights movement was this.During the reconstruction era white tried to do everything possible to restrain African Americans and have them under there authority, wanted to control every aspect of their lives. In the civil rights movement also known as the Southern Freedom Movement tried to help African Americans. The movement tried to enable Africans Americans to have some of their rights and give them what they deserved which was freedom.All these african american people who we can look up to who are icons have chnaged todays society although discrimination is still around and is still know and happens, due to these laws, movements and acts now it is less likely to occur.